Savings-bank-calendar holder.



*PATENTED AUG. 4, 1908. NH.

A. SHEPARD & H. MA -SAVINGS BANK CALENDAR HOLDER.

APPLICATION rum) 16.10, 1901.

UNITED STATES Roa oFrreE I AMOS SHEPARD, or PLAXTSVILLE, .-\.\'D HOSEA MAXX, or TORRIXGTOX, coxxis'crioofr; SAID SHEPARD ASSIGNOR TO SAID MANN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 4', 1908 Application filed August 10, 1907. Serial No. 388,052.

T all 21.7mm it may concern: plate and Be it known that we, Auos SHEPARD and parts belonging thereto. Fig. 4 is a front Hosea. MAXX', citizens of the United States, elevation of the upper portion of one of our residing. respectively, at Plantsville, in the banks with an attached card and a modified 5 county of Hartford, and 'lorriugton, in the form of ho'lder, the said figure being on the 60 county of Litchfield, State of Connecticut, same scale as Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 5 is a r have invented certain new and useful sectional view of the same on the line y y of Improvements in Savings-Brink-Calendar Fig. Fig. 6 is a portion of a card recessed Holders, of which the following is a specito fit the said holder. i

fication. The lifiiili A in the main may be of any 65 i Our invention relates to improvements in ordinary construction. As shown in Fig. 1, savings bank calendar holders, and the main it is provided with a top 6 with a coin chute object of our improvement is to provide a 7 thereonltis also provided with a closure holder on the front of the bank of such a plate 8 at the bottom. Upon the middle f character as to receive and hold on the front front near the top is the guard or guard 70,

of the bank only such calendar backs or plate 9, which is of less width than the cards as are out especially therefor. said front. This late may also serve as the Many ban-king houses, in order to increase name plate of the banking house. This plate their savings deposits, have adopted the is secured in any proper manner, as for exsystem of loaning their depositors portable ample by rivets 10, to the front of the case 75 savings banks which are locked and the key so as to project therefrom the full thickness retained by some of the banking house of the plate. The contour of this plate may ollicials. In these banks money is placed be made in any pleasing design but we prefer from time to time by the parties to whom to make it of some specialform. The-form the banks are loaned and at stated periods shown in Fig. 1 is special enough for our pur- 80. of time, or when the banks are full, they are )ose. -Lt the top of this name plate is a returned to the banking house and the holder or holding plate 11 withits lower edge amounts found therein credited to the fitted to mlitch the upper edge of the guard respective depositors. plate 9 while its ends which constitute the In order to keep the name of the banking grasping portion, project laterally on each house before the depositor, an advertising side of the said guard plate. This holding card or calendar may be attached to the plate 11 is rigidly secured at the middle of bank, but of course each banking house its length to the front end of the short arm desires to have their own advertisement or of an angle lever 1'2. The longer arm or 35 their own calendar on their own banks. main portion of the angle lever 12 is on the If a calendar is on the bank and that caleninner side of the case or receptaclefront, the l dar can only be obtained of a particular short arm extending towards the front banking house, the depositor will naturally through the slot 13, Fig. 2 near the top. make a dep-sit at the end of the calendar The a :igle lever is fulcrumcd at its lowerend I 40' month. or year, and get a new calendar, in a perforated lug 14 on the inner side of the thereby returning the savings bank for case. A. spring 15 is secured to the front side deposits. perhaps more frequently than they of the angle lever with its ends bearing on the otherwise would. front inner wall of the case under tension and In the aucompanying drawing: Figure 1 with a constant tendency to force theholding 45 is a front elevation of our bank and holder plate 11 against the receptacle front with 3 with a calendar held on the face ofthe said which the said holder coacts. The thickness 1 bank- Fig. '1 is a portion of a calendar of the rt-lard plate, that is, the projection of back cut especially for this holder and its the said plate from the receptacle front is a guard. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section grcaterthan will be the thickness of the cal- 50 from side to side of the upper )art of the cndar back 16, or other card designed to be i case of our bank, with the coin slot and top held in the holder. The lengths of the short 5 removed. and showing the inner or rear arm of the angle lever and the long arm of the side of the front and connected parts. Fig. said lever areso related to the case,theholder, ii 3 is an enlarged vertical section on the line and the name date, that the holder plate 55 lforward far enough to bring I r of Fig. l of the upper end of the case and cannot be puller connected parts except the top mit of a card to be pushed up behind the holding plate when that card is in front of the name plate. A notch or'recess 17 is cut in the upper end of the calendar back, or card 16, the lower part of which recess is of thesame contour as the main port-ion of the guard plate 9. The upper end of the said recess has rectangular corners as shown in Fig. 1 and as indicated by broken lines in Fig. 1, and the width of the said recess between these rectangular corners is as great as the 'extreme width of the name or guard plate 9 at the extreme lower edge of the holdmg plate 11. It will thus be seen that the upper end of the card or calendar back is cut to fit certain edges of the guard plate while a ortion of the card innnediately by the Sl( e of the said certain edges is adapted to be pressed upon by the holding plate. It will also be seen that the front of the receptacle below the holder and guard serves as a support for the major part of the card or calendar back to rest upon. In addition to the calendar proper 24, the calendar back or card may have any desired printed matter thereon.

In order to )lace the calendar on the bank within the holder, the upper end of the calendar back is placed just below the lowest part of the holding plate with the two side edges of the recess 17 astride the guard late 9. Then pulling the spring-actuated 101ding plate 11 forwardlv against its spring, the two upper corners of the recessed back can he slipped up behind the holding plate and between it and the front of the case so that the said corners come under the two ends of the holding plate with the lower part of the recess closely fitting the edge of the guard or name plate, as shown in Fig. 1, so that upon releasmg the holding )late to its spring, the card or calendar-back will be held on the bank front in the position where it has been thus placed.

In Figs. 4 and 5 a. modified form of holder is shown with a somewhat ditlercnt bank B. A name or guard plate 9 is secured in like manner to the front of the bank, which plate is in the form of a plain shield. This s iield is recessed through its middle crtion on the back for a width such as is in( icated by the parallel broken lines in Fig. 4 and to a depth fully equal to the thickness of the calendar back or card. The case is also provided with an o ening 18, Fig. 5, at the front behind the mid le of the plate 9 and a spring 19 is seed to cured on the inner side of the case which spring mg 18. The upper end of this soring is provided with a push button 20, that projects throu h an o )ening 21 in'the plate'g. The caloric ar back or card 16 for this holderis provided with recesses 22 at its upper end and a central tongue 23, which recesses and tongue together lit the outer edges of the plate 9 and the recess in the back of the said plate.

In order to card on the ban so as to be held thereon by the holder, the sprin 19 is pushed back awa from the bottom wall of the recess in the bac of the late 9 by )ressing on the push button an then the cdlendar card or back 16 is put in place by slipping the central tongue 23 up endwise into the recess in the back of the p ate 9 and in front of the spring 19, until the outer edges of the recesses 22 come closely to the side' ed es of the plate 9 and the edges of the centraI tongue 23 substantially abut against the confronting edges in the tongue recess in the plate 9, as shown in Fig. 4, when upon releasing the pressure on the push button the calendar will be held in place by the pressure of the spring 19 on the said tongue. In this construction the spring 19 is the equivalent of the spring-actuated holding plate 1 1 in the holder first described. The edges of the tongue recess in theguard plate 9, as well as the lower and side edges of the lace the calendar or other said plate, are special edges of the guard for the specially cut edges of the card to abut a ainst. The sprin actuated plate is adapti'ess upon that portion of the card which is immediatel by the side of certain edges of the guard ate. In both constructions the calendar ack or card must be cut to fit the particular holder and uard to which it is to be a plied and the il'ference between a pull and a ush for. opening the holder to receive a portion of the card or calendar back, is considered immaterial. By having the guard late of less width than the front of the ban; and lacing it near the middle upper front of tie bank, leaves an ample seat for a calendar back on both sides of and below the said guard plate. By the employment of such a holder u )on the front of a bank, treasure box, or analogous receptacle, the party owning and loaning the banks has control of the calendars or other advertising matter that may be displayed on the bank. It is true that other cards could be cut to fit the holder, but unless the printing thereon was done with special reference to such cutting, the printed matter on the card would probably be mutilated so that the user would prefer the intended card. i

o claim as our invention:

1. A receptacle and holder comprising a receptacle front, a cardholder mounted on the said front near the middle upper part thereof, a guard plate mounted on the said 1 4. A savings bank and card holder comfront adjacent to the said card holder, and a card having at its upper end specially cut edges to abut Special edges of the said guard when the said card is held by the said holder, while the part below the said holder and guard rests upon the rece tacle front.

2. A savings bank and l a receptacle having a front, a calendar back holder mounted on the said front near the upper end thereof leaving the lower part of the said front as a calendar back support, a

guard on the upper part of the said front adjacent to the said holder, and a calendar back having at its upper end specially out edges to abut against special edges of the said guard when the said card is held by the said holder while the lower part of the calendar back is adapted to rest upon the said front below the said holder and guard.

3. A receptacle and holder comprising a receptacle front, a spring actuated holding plate mounted on the said front adjacent to the said guard plate with its grasping portions extended laterally on opposite sides thereof, and a card recessed at its upper end to lit the lower edge of the said uard )late while the upper corners of the said card immediately by the sides of the said recess are ada )ted to be held in the grasping portions of the said spring actuated holding plate.

iolder comprising prising a receptacle having a front, aguard plate mountec on the said front, and having special edges for the edges of a card to abut ,against, a spring actuated holding plate mounted on t 1e said front immediately by the 1 side of the said edges of the said guard plate,

and a card having its upper end cut to fit the said specialedges of the said guard plate while 1 the portion of the said card immediately bythe side of the said special edges of the said guard is adapted to be pressed upon by the said holding plat-e.

5. A receptacle and holder comprising a receptacle front, a guard plate projecting therefrom, a holder plate at one edge of the said guard plate on the said front for coacting therewith, an angle lever -to which said holding plate is rigidly secured, the main portion of the said angle lever being within the receptacle and fulcrumed therein, and a spring between the said angle lever and said receptacle front.

AMOS SHEPARD. HOSEA MANN.- \Vitnesses for Amos Shepard:

. JAMES SHEPARD,

Snnrrnsrn H. CLARKE. \Vitnesses for Hosea Mann: RALPH H. MANN, JOHN H. SEATON. 

